By the Sun's Rays (1914)
The earliest surviving film featuring Lon Chaney in a major role, By the Sun's Ray's was but one of several 2-reel westerns starring the florid Murdock MacQuarrie. MacQuarrie plays a detective investigating a series of gold shipment robberies. Along the way, he falls for a mine superintendent's pretty daughter (Agnes Vernon), much to the dismay of a sullen mine office clerk (Chaney), who is also smitten with the girl...
- Date of release
- 1914-07-21
- TMDB
- 4.8 / 10 (14)
- Runtime
- 11m
- Genres
- Western, Action
- Director
- Charles Giblyn
Casting
- Murdock MacQuarrie — John Murdock, the Detective
- Lon Chaney — Frank Lawler, the Clerk
- Seymour Hastings — John Davis - Supt. of Mines
- Agnes Vernon — Dora Davis - John's Daughter
- Richard Rosson — The Bandit (as Dick Rosson)
- Eddie Lyons — Undetermined Role (unconfirmed / uncredited)
Interesting facts
By the Sun's Rays is a 1914 American short silent Western film directed by Charles Giblyn and featuring Lon Chaney and Murdock MacQuarrie. It is one of the earliest surviving films of Lon Chaney, with several prints existing in private film collections and a video release in 1995. A still from the film exists showing Lon Chaney in the role of the villainous "Frank Lawlor".
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